The Astronaut Who Looked Down and Felt Known

In 1998, astronaut Mike Massimino floated 353 miles above Earth during a spacewalk on the Hubble Space Telescope. He later described the moment he looked down at the planet below — not as a scientist cataloging data, but as a man overwhelmed by something he hadn't expected. He could see Long Island. He could trace the outline of his neighborhood in Franklin Square, New York.…